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Patrick van Schie

Patrick van Schie is an historian and managing director of the Telders Foundation, a Dutch liberal think tank, affiliated to the political party VVD.
His most recent publication is a contribution to the magazine of the foundation, Liberal responsibility, and the book Neo-liberalism: a political fiction (co-authors Mark van de Veld and Martin van Hees).

Border Sessions 2014 - Thu, 13 Nov 2014

The Rathenau Institute will present its new report on coaching apps at the Border Sessions festival.

Do
you use your smartphone to keep you motivated while you are running? Do
you use your telephone to find out how you have slept and how stressed
you are? Future apps will be able to continually monitor users and
advise them on changing their behaviour, from losing weight to having
enough money left at the end of the month to put some aside.

Apps measure our behaviour, emotions, activity and bodily
functions. Smart software analyses the data and is able to discover
patterns we cannot see ourselves, acting like a sixth sense and
supporting a range of everyday choices. Very convenient, but can we also
trust them? What do the apps base their advice on? Is a coaching app
subject to an oath of professional confidentiality? Who actually profits
from the intimate data that apps gather?

Find out what coaching apps can do for you at our book
presentation on 13 November. Let yourself be surprised by smart coaching
app Life+. This implant monitors your health by continuosly measuring
how much you are moving, what you eat and how stressed you are. Take the
opportunity to voice your expectations of coaching apps.